Mutation 006

  The gray gas continued to pour into Zhang Yi's body, and in the middle, it kept making a faint cry, as if it was extremely joyful. Until after a long time, the gray gas finally dissipated, but the paper symbols under the lamp suddenly burst into a fierce red light, turning into flames, which shot straight up along the lamp light onto Zhang Yi's body.

  In the midst of confusion, he only felt a severe pain in his body and couldn't help but slap his hands on the large incense burner with force. This slap directly made his hands bleed profusely, leaving two blood-red handprints on the incense burner.

  A large censer suddenly emitted a burst of golden light, followed by a loud crash, and the entire thing shattered into fragments. Amidst the debris, threads of golden lightning emerged, shooting straight towards Zhan Wing's brow, until they all entered his brow, at which point the room finally fell silent.

  Under the shining lights, the spread wings of his body slowly began to change color, just like the surrounding lights that shone on him, sometimes golden yellow, sometimes tender green, and sometimes pale blue... until it turned into half black and half white, then bursts of light began to emerge.

  At this time, the pain in Yan's wings had slowly disappeared, but his mind seemed to be bursting with something, and many incomprehensible scenes kept flashing before his eyes, as if they were all different versions of himself, some wearing monk robes, others wearing Taoist robes, and one even holding a wooden fish, their expressions also varied.

  He didn't know why he saw these, but every scene seemed to have a story behind it that was his own, and he really wanted to know what happened in that story, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't remember.

  As this image flashed through his mind, the blood in his body began to flow rapidly, as if countless strange energies were mixed in and constantly circulating within his body, being refined by it.

  Soon the images representing stories in his mind disappeared, replaced by various monster images, some like dragons, some like tigers, some like wolves, and even some like trees, like tombstones, and some he didn't know what they looked like.

  He seemed very familiar with these images, but didn't know where he had seen them before. He just felt that his brain was swelling and something was about to burst out, but it seemed like the power wasn't enough.

  Until the energy that had just been absorbed into his body slowly gathered in his brain, forming a large vortex, and this vortex rotated rapidly, then more and more energy from all over the body and the heavenly spirit gathered over, quickly being sucked into the vortex.

  Time passed minute by minute, second by second, and it was unknown how long it had been. The swirling vortex continued to absorb all the energy that approached it like a huge black hole, while the thoughts with spread wings slowly became clear.

  He felt a powerful and mysterious energy surging throughout his body, as if it came from the blood, yet also seemed to come from the soul. The whole person seemed to be floating in space, with an exceptionally comfortable feeling of weightlessness that made him unwilling to open his eyes.

  "Master, are you... alright? Ah..." Just as he was enjoying the feeling of weightlessness and floating in mid-air, he suddenly heard Xiao Jiao's worried cry beside his ear, followed by a pained wail that sounded like she was in agony.

  This made his heart skip a beat, and the swirling vortex in his mind emitted a burst of intense light before disappearing. He opened his eyes to find Xiao Jiao tightly clinging to him, looking extremely weak and anguished. The lights around them had all gone out, and they could only see the chaotic scene on the ground by the faint glow emanating from the passageway.

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  "Xiao Jiao, what's wrong?" Zhan Yi couldn't help but ask as he didn't expect Xiao Jiao to appear at this moment, and she seemed to be injured.

  Xiao Jiao heard Zhan Yi's words and slowly opened her eyes, a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and she said weakly: "Young master, I'm fine, why did you come here yourself? Do you know how dangerous this is? If something really happens to you, how can Xiao Jiao face herself in the future?"

  Looking at the sad expression on Xiao Jiao's face, he didn't expect her to be so weak and still worried about his safety. He felt a pang of emotion in his heart, and with the confirmation of Xuan Ming's evil intentions, he became even more uncertain about Xiao Jiao's good or evil nature. Could it be that he had misunderstood her all along? This thought made him feel somewhat guilty, so he hugged Xiao Jiao and asked worriedly: "Xiao Jiao, I'm fine, what's wrong with you?"

  "I don't know either, it just seemed like I was about to be sucked into your body, and my body felt a bit weak from being illuminated by the Five Elements' light. Luckily you opened your eyes in time and made the Five Elements' light disappear, or else I might never have seen Young Master again." Little Jiao shook her head slightly, speaking with difficulty.

  "Xiao Jiao, you mustn't get into trouble, I've already got the 'Bai Bo Bao' right here in my arms, and you can recover immediately." Zhan Yi felt more and more guilty as he looked at Xiao Jiao, and couldn't help but reveal the truth.

  "It's hard for you, actually, Xiao Jiao isn't worth it for you. Do you know that if something unexpected happens to you this time, even if Xiao Jiao's soul flies away, she will not stay in the world alone?" Xiao Jiao looked at Zhan Yi's flustered expression and smiled bitterly, with tears welling up in her eyes.

  Zhan Yi's heart felt as if it had been pricked by a needle when he heard Xiao Jiao's words. He knew that ghosts and gods placed the greatest importance on oaths, and if one's heart was not completely resolute, they would never utter such words, because the oaths of ghosts and gods were 100% guaranteed to become reality in the future.

  This also made him more convinced that Xiao Jiao's nature was kind, and as for her previous words, many places were contradictory, there must be some bitter intention.

  At the same time, he thought about his various suspicions about her, and a strong sense of guilt made his heart even more anxious. Now Xiaojiao looked especially unwell, as if she might disappear at any moment. He hastily shook his head to comfort her: "Don't talk nonsense, Xiaojiao. I've told you before that no matter what, I won't let your spirit scatter. You promised me you'd be my little three, didn't you? Quickly tell me how to make you feel better!"

  "Gentleman, look at how anxious you are. I'm just feeling weak and it's nothing serious. Besides, I think there's something in your pocket that seems to be nourishing my soul. I'll be fine soon." Little Jiao saw Xuan Yi's anxious expression and her face looked much better.

  "Is this the thing you're talking about in your pocket?" Zhan Yi looked slightly stunned, then took out the Lingxiu treasure jade from his pocket and handed it to Xiao Jiao.

  "Ah, Lingxiu Baoyu, how did you get this thing?" Little Jiao saw a flash of surprise in Baoyu's eyes, seemingly joyful and desiring.

  "Heh, isn't it just the thing that old Daoist left behind? I saw it at the bottom of the Baigui treasure bottle and thought it might be useful to you, so I brought it with me. Is this thing really that valuable?" Zhan Yi said with a slightly embarrassed smile, as if he was ashamed of taking someone else's things.

  "Uh, this Lingxiu Baoyu is a super treasure for soul training, and no matter what injury it suffers, as long as the soul is not extinguished, it can recover in the shortest time." Xiaojiao nodded slightly and said.

  "That's great, Xiao Jiao, hurry up and take him away. We don't want to stay here all the time. I'm not too fond of this place."

  Zhan Yi listened and suddenly became happy.

  "Master, this thing is too precious, I..." Little Jiao's expression was somewhat hesitant, but her eyes never left the treasure.

  "Xiao Jiao, don't hesitate anymore, otherwise you'll never recover and how can you be my mistress then?" Zhan Yi put Bao Yu in Xiao Jiao's hand and joked.

  "You're so bad, Master Bao! Alright, I'll take it. When we get back and recover, I'll be your... concubine." Xiaojiao's face flushed with embarrassment as she finally reached out to take the jade pendant from him.

  After she grasped the Lingxiu Treasure Orb, Zhan Yi only saw a flash of green light, and the treasure orb suddenly disappeared into Xiao Jiao's body. Xiao Jiao's body emitted waves of pale white light, which complemented her delicate and charming temperament, making her beauty reach its peak.

  It wasn't until after a while that Xiao Jiao finally stood up, her face and spirit restored to normal. She looked at Zhan Yi with a stunned expression and smiled mischievously: "Young master, your drool is about to drip out."

  "Uh... sorry Xiaojiao, it's just that you're too beautiful." Zhan Yi's face turned red as he said this with some embarrassment.

  "Cough, young master, hurry up and get up, let's search together to see if there's anything useful here. After we're done, we'll leave." Xiao Jiao heard Zhan Yi's words and smiled slyly at him.

  Zhan Yi nodded and didn't say anything else. He still felt a bit uncomfortable with the sudden change in his relationship with Xiao Jiao.

  The two of them rummaged through the basement for half a day, cursing Xuan Ming's perversion and cruelty while gathering useful things.

  With Xiao Jiao's help, Zhan Yi finally knew the use of some things, and after packing for half a day, he packed up his luggage and was about to leave. However, when they reached the corner, Xiao Jiao suddenly stopped in her tracks, turned around, looked at the bottles and jars on the shelves and said to Zhan Yi: "Young master, you go ahead first, I'll take care of things here."

  "What's going on?" Xianyi asked with some confusion.

  "Sir, look at those jars and containers, they are all obtained by Xuan Ming's evil ways and loss of conscience. How can we let him continue to use them? So I must destroy these things." Xiao Jiao said very seriously.

  "I'll set them on fire and burn them, it's also a way to offer sacrifices to these wrongly killed people." Zhan Yi heard Xiao Jiao's words and thought they made sense, so he immediately came up with a compromise.

  "Absolutely not, young master. These are all unjustly dead people. You can't get close to them, or else you'll be infected with evil energy and will definitely fall seriously ill later on. Hurry up and go back, let Xiaojiao handle these things instead." Xiaojiao quickly shook her head and said.

  Zhan Yi heard the words and didn't say anything else, quickly walking up along the passage. Standing on top, he only heard a loud crash inside, like the sound of bottles breaking, followed by waves of black smoke billowing out from the passage.

  "Xiao Jiao, are you okay? What happened?" Zhan Yi's voice was filled with concern and urgency as he shouted into the corridor.

  "Master, I'm fine, you absolutely mustn't come in, the evil energy here is too thick, I'll deal with it and be right up." A worried voice came from inside, sounding like Xiao Jiao.

  Zhan Yi finally felt at ease knowing that Xiao Jiao was fine, and he sat down at the entrance of the corridor to wait. However, as he watched the black smoke continuously billowing out from inside, he couldn't help but think about all those bottles and jars in there. Suddenly, he felt a bit awkward, and the good impression he had just formed of Xiao Jiao seemed to have decreased significantly.